The offshore wind industry has as much chance of recovering as the dodo and the woolly mammoth. Donald Trump’s obliteration of America’s offshore wind industry is gathering pace. And with dozens of projects worth $billions in capital expenditure being quietly scrapped, offshore wind construction outfits and turbine manufacturers face financial annihilation.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
Yoshihiro Muronakareports on how the Japanese goverment’s delusional offshore wind plan – based on untried and untested giant floating turbines – is colliding with crippling costs and woeful performance. Oh, reality!!
Japan’s Green Energy Failures Serve as a Warning to the US: Don’t Fall for the Climate Agenda
Western Journal
Yoshihiro Muronaka
6 October 2025
Pierre Gosselin outlines the calamitous, accumulating effect these things have on every aspect of the local environment: its soil, its climate and its critters.
Green Energy’s High Price: Wind Farms Are Ravaging Nature, Biodiversity
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
5 October 2025
The team from Jo Nova details how rising power prices – already driven into the stratosphere by Australia’s suicidal subsidised wind and solar obsession – are now the number one threat to every viable Australian business, whatever its trade.
Chickens coming home: Energy prices are now the biggest single concern of business in Australia
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
4 October 2025
The team follow-up with this report on an outbreak of sanity in the State of Queensland, where its government has scrapped ludicrously costly and inefficient pumped hydro scams dreamt up by its Labor predecessor, in favour of keeping their reliable and affordable coal-fired generators chugging away for another generation, or so.
Queensland breaks the unthinkable tabboo, saves $26b and keeps old coal plants running *til 2046*!
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
11 October 2025
Robert Bradley Jr reports on the implosion playing out in America’s grid-scale solar industry. With the main form of subsidy (Investment and Production Tax Credits) drawing to a close, investors have lost interest and dozens of enormous planned projects are being scrapped.
Utility-scale Solar: The Grim News Begins (Blue Ridge “wind-down’)
Master Resource
Robert Bradley Jr
9 October 2025
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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